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Get the facts: Thousands of women weren’t dying from abortion before Roe v. Wade
live Action News ^ | July 12, 2018 | Carole Novielli |

Posted on 07/12/2018 7:29:52 PM PDT by Morgana

In the days leading up to the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in America, pro-choice advocates claimed hundreds of thousands of women had died from illegal abortions. Because of this, several lawmakers voted to decriminalize abortion prior to Roe, and even today, some lawmakers are hesitant to outlaw it because of this lie. These statistics were invented by the same people who would profit from the procedure’s legalization.

False Claim #1: 5,000-10,000 women died annual from illegal abortion before Roe.

FACT: These statistics were made up. The real number was a mere fraction of this.

Abortionist Bernard Nathanson admitted that he and others fabricated large numbers of deaths from illegal terminations prior to Roe. Nathanson and Larry Lader, a Margaret Sanger biographer, worked to decriminalize abortion laws. Together, they and others founded NARAL (then known as the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws).

Alexandra Desanctis writes in National Review, “Undoubtedly this argument, that the illegality of abortion was leading to the deaths of countless women at the hands of ‘back alley butchers,'” played an essential role in deciding Roe, adding, “Blackmun… cited the papers of [a] NARAL attorney… who falsified the legal history of abortion to make it appear as if abortion restrictions were not imposed until the 19th century and were created then only to protect maternal health rather than the lives of unborn children.”

Nathanson admitted in his book that the 5,000-10,000 illegal death figure was fabricated because it was a “nice, round, shocking figure.” And the media repeated it without proof.

“There were perhaps 300 or so deaths from criminal abortions annually in the United States in the sixties,” he said, “but NARAL… claimed to have data that supported a figure of five thousand.”

The 5,000 figure originates from several sources based largely on assumptions. In the image below, NARAL’s footnote quotes from a source that allegedly “discussed Dr. Christopher Tietze’s estimate of nearly 8,000 deaths from illegal abortion annually in the United States.” One problem: Tietze disputed that number, as did records of maternal deaths reviewed by the CDC. Larry Lader admitted, “Tietze places the figure nearer 1,000.”

In 1930, the Guttmacher Institute claimed abortion was the “official cause of death for almost 2,700 women.” By 1940, that number had dropped to between 1400 and 1700. By the 1950s, Mary Calderone claimed these deaths were at around 300, and Guttmacher agreed, citing “the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s, which permitted more effective treatment of the infections that frequently developed” after illegal procedures. Antibiotics also led to a significant decline in maternal mortality overall.

By 1964, these deaths were at 264, and the following year, approximately 193.

In 1967, Dr. Tietze called the 5,000 illegal abortion deaths claim “unmitigated nonsense,” according to an article in the Berkshire Eagle, saying the real number was “certainly no more than a thousand.” He said people lied “to raise sympathy for liberalized abortion laws” by “mak[ing] people afraid.” (Tietze was given Planned Parenthood’s Sanger Award in 1973.)

In 1969, three researchers writing in the American Journal of Public Health found, “The frequently quoted figure of 5,000 – 10,000 deaths from abortion annually appears unrealistic in view of the 189 deaths from abortion, and about 50,000 deaths from all causes for women of reproductive age, reported by the National Center for Health Statistics for 1966….”

In 1972, the year prior to Roe, CDC reported 51 deaths related to abortions and miscarriages in 1973, and 71 in 1972. Those reports were later updated to 19 illegal procedure deaths in 1973 and 39 in 1972; and 25 legal procedure deaths in 1973 and 24 in 1972:

A 1975 report by the National Academy of Sciences found that “the total number of deaths due to abortion reported by the National Center for Health Statistics has been below 500 since 1958 and below 100 since 1971.”

False claim #2: Abortion’s legality affects its safety because of back-alley abortions.

FACT: Before Roe, the most illegal abortions were done by physicians.

Past Planned Parenthood president Alan Guttmacher admitted to the Harvard Crimson in 1967 that “Seventy per cent of the illegal abortions in the country are performed by reputable physicians, each thinking himself a knight in white armor.”

A Planned Parenthood Federation of America medical director, Mary S. Calderone, admitted the same in 1959, telling the Maternal and Child Health Section of the American Public Health Association that abortion was “no longer a dangerous procedure,” because physicians were doing it.

he added that they “must do a pretty good job if the death rate is as low as it is. Whatever trouble arises usually comes after self-induced abortions, which comprise approximately 8 per cent, or with the very small percentage that go to some kind of nonmusical abortionist….”

In most states prior to Roe, doctors were legally permitted to commit “therapeutic abortions” if the woman’s life was endangered. (We know today that abortion is actually never medically necessary.) Calderone said, “Abortion is no longer a dangerous procedure. This applies not just to therapeutic abortions as performed in hospitals but also to so-called illegal abortions as done by physicians.”

Live Action News previously noted making abortion legal hasn’t made it safe. Since Roe, countless women have suffered injuries or death from abortion. Cree Erwin-Sheppard died in July 2016, shortly after aborting at a Kalamazoo Planned Parenthood. Her brother Tyler recounts the events:

Whether illegal or legal, every abortion is intended to take the life of a human baby and can physically damage or kill the mother.

**********CDC IMAGES ON LINK**********


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: abortion; botchedabortions; cdc; hysteria; mythmaking; prolife; roevswade; waronerror
As Sgt Joe Friday would say "Just the facts Ma'am"
1 posted on 07/12/2018 7:29:52 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Interesting, I wonder if the death rate now for legal abortions is higher than the true death rate of illegal abortions. I would not be surprised.


2 posted on 07/12/2018 7:33:57 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Morgana

For those of us who were around when Roe v. Wade was forced on us, we were assured by it’s supporters that it would never be used as a convenience or as another form of birth control.


3 posted on 07/12/2018 7:37:06 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (screanigng t)
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To: Morgana

No statute of limitations for Fraud Upon The Court but I.m not a liawyer.


4 posted on 07/12/2018 7:39:14 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Morgana

Satan is the king of liars. It is interesting the false prophet Mahomet (British spelling) called Allah the same: “But they (the Jews) were deceptive, and Allah was deceptive, for Allah is the best of deceivers.” Surah 3:54.


5 posted on 07/12/2018 7:46:46 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Morgana

Just the Facts Bump


6 posted on 07/12/2018 7:47:48 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: Morgana

1959: ILLEGAL ABORTION AS A PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM, Mary Steichen Calderone. VOL. 50. NO. 7. A.J.P.H.

“...In 46 states, legal abortion is permitted to preserve the life of the mother; three states allow it in additio, preservation of the health of the mother. Thus in the other states such abortions are being performed legally, that is, therapeutic abortions, are for the most part being done on the word of psychiatrists that the unwilling mother will otherwise commit suicide....

...The second fact to be established, therefore, is that the border zone between legal and illegal abortion is narrow and shifts frequently, depending on personnel and locale. Indeed, as one participant bluntly put it, “I would like to call attention to the artifact of distinction between illegal and therapeutic abortion. Actually, according to my definition, in many cases the difference between the one and the other is $300 and knowing the right person.”...

...In 1957 there were only 260 deaths in the whole country attributed to abortions of any kind...Second, and even more important, the conference estimated that 90 percent of all illegal abortions are presently being done by physicians. Call them what you will, abortionists or anything else, they are still physicians, trained as such, and many of them are in good standing in their communities....So remember fact number three; abortion, whether therapeutic or illegal, is in the main no longer dangerous, because it is being done well by physicians.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1373382/pdf/amjphnation00308-0022.pdf


7 posted on 07/12/2018 7:55:47 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Morgana

I’m not sure how many women died before Roe Vs Wade, but I can assure you that millions upon millions of innocent babies have died since..


8 posted on 07/12/2018 8:08:34 PM PDT by Professional
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Yeah, wow, and look what it is now huh?

Planned Parenthood is to family planning what a junk yard is to cars. The amount of money being made from aborted children is staggering.

God, wipe this planet out, there is no intelligent life here.


9 posted on 07/12/2018 8:10:35 PM PDT by Professional
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To: Morgana

Get the facts- Abortion sucks- STOP doing it!


10 posted on 07/12/2018 8:36:50 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Morgana

If the “goal” is freedom to kill unborn babies, is it suprising that liberals will lie their asses off to preserve said goal?


11 posted on 07/12/2018 8:40:48 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Morgana

Bookmark


12 posted on 07/12/2018 9:42:27 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Morgana

There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and feminist statistics.


13 posted on 07/12/2018 11:01:00 PM PDT by TChad
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To: Morgana

Bump


14 posted on 07/13/2018 6:12:25 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Morgana
We know today that abortion is actually never medically necessary

I'm not sure this is true. In the event of a tubal pregnancy if it isn't terminated both mother and baby will die. But otherwise I agree with it and am pro life.

15 posted on 07/13/2018 6:13:00 AM PDT by Dad was my hero
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To: Morgana

Wait....liberals lied ?

I can’t believe it...shocking!


16 posted on 07/13/2018 6:16:54 AM PDT by Popman (Wisdom is not what you know about the world but how well you know God.)
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To: Professional

But, but, U hav 2 recall the millions saved from breast

cancer thru PP’s mammogram programs..../sarc


17 posted on 07/13/2018 6:24:22 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: Morgana

Now thousands of children are dying from abortion. Even if the creator didn’t exist killing children is barbaric and animistic.


18 posted on 07/13/2018 8:16:51 AM PDT by merkava
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